i810/modesetting and Xinerama?

Colin Guthrie gmane at colin.guthr.ie
Mon Dec 18 11:23:12 PST 2006


Keith Packard wrote:
> Note that the 945 and earlier chipsets cannot deal with a frame buffer
> stride of larger than 8KB, so if you want to run 3840x1200, you'll have
> to run at 16bpp. Yes, this is annoying.

I assume this is a 100% hardware problem and that it cannot be fixed in
software?

If so...... dammit. :p

$ lspcidrake | grep "Intel 945"
Card:Intel 945  : Intel Corp.|Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller
[DISPLAY_VGA]

Col.




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